{"id":4171,"date":"2019-03-07T05:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T05:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2019-03-07T06:14:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:14:33","slug":"captain-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/captain-marvel\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Oscar winner Brie Larson\u2019s Captain Marvel<\/i> rightly takes her place alongside the boys. The Marvel Universe may seem a bit late to the game when it comes to having a female in the absolute lead of an MCU movie. Writer\/Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck give us a multi-layered female superhero who is as quick with a quip as she is with blasts from her glowing hands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This origin story, set in the 1990\u2019s introduces Larson as Vers is an intergalactic soldier for the Kree Starforce. In this film, Vers is promptly captured by the shape-shifting Skrulls who probe her mind and find she recalls a past lived on \u201cPlanet C-53\u201d where she was just a girl. It was where men and boys exercised power over females, telling them they were weak and inadequate whether it was playing baseball, riding a bike or piloting an Air Force fighter.<\/p>\n

When Vers wakes up, it\u2019s hammer-time as she pounds the Skrulls and she only gets stronger. Vers (Captain Marvel) and Fury end up fighting not only the Skrulls led by Ben Mendelsohn, who\u2019s a good addition to every movie he\u2019s in regardless of the Star-Trekkie<\/i> make-up, but also the Kree under the biggest sexist in the bunch, Yon-Rogg (Jude Law). It\u2019s Yon-Rogg always telling Vers she can\u2019t win because she\u2019s too emotional and vulnerable (just like a girl).<\/p>\n

Jude Law is her tough trainer, physically trying to keep her emotions at bay to keep her powerful hands from glowing too much or too soon. Larson trained hard for 9 months. The female-empowerment message is front and center. In the comics, the first iteration of this character was a man, Captain Mar-vell, but there is never a hint of that in this movie version.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4172″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4178″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4176″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Brie Larson is one of the most ordinary-extraordinary woman to ever show up on the big screen. She has wit, humor and an inner glow that isn\u2019t computer-generated, but she has that too. Her costume is certainly form-fitting, but not overtly sexy and not at all revealing. She\u2019s beautiful, but no one would dare say that defines her, lest he be plastered with a power bolt. This is Larson\u2019s movie and she carries it with ease.<\/p>\n

She tells a startled, computerized younger version of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson without the eyepatch) she is from a \u201drace of noble warrior heroes.\u201d Even Jackson had to get used to not having the eye patch he wore in 8 films as Fury. It was like his blankie and found he still put it on while learning his lines. Must be nice to be forever young, at least on film.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The movie, itself, gets off to a pretty slow start and picks up steam along the way. The first battle and the scenes on the planet Hala look like Boden and Fleck were trying to find their rhythm. The initial battle scenes are pretty run-of-the-mill with some poor shot selection and staging. Annette Bening turns up as the \u201cSupreme Intelligence\u201d dispensing wisdom and encouragement through a sci-fi mist that is supposed to infuse the scene with meaning. Bening also appears as flashes in some of Vers\u2019 memories from C-53. Too bad the simplistic, dull lines Bening were given wasted the talents of one of the great film actors of this era.<\/p>\n

The action doesn\u2019t really begin until Vers crashes through the roof of a 90\u2019s Blockbuster store (There is only one left) as she falls to C-53. This is where she teams with the CGI younger version of Samuel L. Jackson who just starting out as the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Vers and Fury turn into a buddy-cop team with some playful banter with the also youthful Clark Gregg as Phil Colson looks on in bewilderment. The CGI effect on him was not as kind. His face looked more like a failed botox treatment.<\/p>\n

While Captain Marvel keeps getting stronger and more resilient the special effects team has trouble keeping up with her. At times there were inconsistent shots of her rocketing through space that look more like Saturday morning cartoons than high tech 21st Century computer animation.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4174″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4187″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”4175″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]The best unexpected pleasure turns out to be Goose, the orange tabby. In the original comics, Carol Danvers, the earth girl who becomes Captain Marvel had a cat named Chewie. For obvious Star <\/i>Wars reasons that name is already taken so enter Goose. This name is an homage toTop Gun <\/i>and Carol Danvers\u2019 past fighter pilot history. Samuel L. Jackson tells how easy it was working with the cat since he responded for treats. The cat\u2019s scenes are a most enjoyable treat on screen too.<\/p>\n

More female empowerment comes from Lashana Lynch, who plays Carol\u2019s former best friend and pilot Maria Rambeau. Maria has a little girl, Monica (Akira Akbar) who gets to tell her Mom to go fight aliens with Vers or she\u2019ll have to \u201cConsider what kind of example you\u2019re serving for your daughter!\u201d Maria is another strong, indomitable female character who will likely turn up in future Captain Marvel adventures.<\/p>\n

Disney\/Marvel made a smart business move as well as satisfying the fan-base by releasing Captain Marvel<\/i> just weeks before Avengers:Endgame. <\/i>The story of Captain Marvel\u2019s emergence must somehow dovetail into the coming battle with Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Hulk to save half the planet including Black Panther, Spider-Man, and Dr. Strange. Isn\u2019t it timely that the fate of the world, not to mention the Marvel Universe sits squarely on the shoulders of a woman?<\/p>\n

The biggest kudos go to Brie Larson who already showed what strong women look like in Short Term 12 <\/i>and her Oscar winning performance in Room.<\/i> Now she takes being female and in control to unimaginable heights as the most powerful superhero in the MCU. She actually glows as she dives, swoops and blasts the bad guys, but still manages to keep that little smirk on her face. Another star is glowing in the Marvel Universe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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